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Monday, August 7, 2017

Magnolia Mystery QAL {Fabric Pull & Cutting}

Since finishing the top of my Meadow Mystery Quilt, I have been looking forward to the newest edition of Cheryl's mystery QAL series -- the Magnolia mystery quilt!


For this quilt along, I decided to go with a controlled scrappy fabric pull rather than pulling from my stash, as I have done for both the Meadow and Midnight mystery quilts. Having leftovers from a few of the blog hop projects I have done recently as well as leftovers from old bundles, I pooled fabrics from Folk Art Fantasy, Sparkle, and Wallflowers, and added in a few fabrics from my scrap boxes.

For Fabric A, I had enough of the mint green floral Folk Art Fantasy print for the 3/8 yard required for the quilt. Cheryl actually suggests using layer cake squares or jelly roll strips for Fabric B - I settled on using the aqua prints since I had the most variety of blues. Red was the obvious choice for Fabric C given what I had on hand.


For background, I believe that I've settled on Kona Coal. White seems like it is a little humdrum, but black might be too stark. I think using Coal will provide nice contrast from the mint green and aqua, but will be a little bit softer than straight up black.

I did all of the cutting for Fabrics A, B, and C -- and here they all are arranged in a beautiful fashion on my good cutting board. For both the aqua and the red, there were colors I didn't end up using at all! Some because the prints were too large (the aqua floral in the picture above) and some because I had more fabric than I needed and cut from the smallest scraps first.


Fabric A was obviously much simpler to cut since it was just one piece!


And here's a picture of all of them as they exist in real life -- in plastic bags in a bin waiting for next month's sewing directions.


Are you participating? Did you take advantage of the HBD Kona Special yet?

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5 comments:

  1. Looking forward to seeing how your fabrics work out.

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  2. Kona Coal sounds like a great choice for your background. I hope to be able to get to cut my fabric for the QAL this week, but thankfully we have a month in case I get busy with other things!!

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  3. Great fabric choices! Looking forward to seeing it come together. Thanks for linking up with Oh Scrap!

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  4. I'm doing the mystery also, with stuff from my stash. I always love her mysteries.

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